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Would you go undercover and infiltrate a futuristic mob to save your sibling? I’d have to think really hard…

False Hearts by Laura Lam

November 30, 2022 by Bothari43 3 Comments

How’s this for a synopsis: a pair of conjoined twins escape the cult they’ve been raised in, are surgically separated and given new hearts, and learn to live in near-future San Francisco, until one of them is arrested for murder and the other has to go undercover as her sister to infiltrate the mob that’s trying to mine people’s dreams and prove her innocence. Whew! It’s a fun ride. Taema and Tila lived on an island in a cult called the Hearth, run by a […]

Filed Under: Science Fiction Tagged With: conjoined twins, cults, Laura Lam, San Francisco, undercover

Bothari43's CBR14 Review No:23 · Genres: Science Fiction · Tags: conjoined twins, cults, Laura Lam, San Francisco, undercover ·
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A bazillion miles away and still too close to home

Goldilocks by Laura Lam

July 12, 2022 by Bothari43 2 Comments

This is another mid-apocalyptic sci-fi story where the Earth is in trouble and a group of astronauts is trying to save the day. Except it was written in 2020, and the author is taking some of the real life atrocities and pushing it out to the worst possible conclusions, and reading it in 2022, it seems all too plausible. There are multiple plagues and thousands of refugees as climate change makes vast swaths of the planet unlivable. The president is a fundamentalist wingnut, abortion has […]

Filed Under: Science Fiction Tagged With: dystopia, Laura Lam, the Earth is doomed

Bothari43's CBR14 Review No:14 · Genres: Science Fiction · Tags: dystopia, Laura Lam, the Earth is doomed ·
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